re: TOPS meant to keep college educated people in LA, instead it is funding TX's workforce

I graduated from LSU in 1982 and have lived and worked in Houston since then. There were no jobs in LA in chemical engineering when I graduated but there were plenty in TX.

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a governor that knows how to actually grow the economy rather than just tax more.

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Yeah because past Republican goveners were so good at this. Election is over champ

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is thread has a lot of freeloaders that are proud of ripping off the taxpayers and bragging about how they got their taxpayer funded degree and moved out of state.

Just incredibly disgusting.

And a lot of those welfare queens call themselves "conservative".

A great example of why I won't be upset if TOPS eventually goes away.

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I disagree, people used TOPS because it was there. It’s no difference than a conservative taking legal tax deductions or using legal loopholes in the tax code.

You’d be an idiot not to use TOPS if it was your best option and you’d be an idiot not to take a job with a situation favorable to yourself.

La. Needs to compete with other states to attract businesses. Educating our citizenry helps, but there are other factors too snd we don’t compete well in those areas.

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That's where the higher taxes come into play. Businesses are gonna start flocking to this state any day now.

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Is TOPS taxpayer funded? Didn’t it start out as privately funded?

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Are people still melting over the governors race back in La?

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No. I’m just pointing out the irony of someone complaining about the terrible economy and job market in Louisiana after having just voted for someone who wants to keep up that same status quo.

You get what you vote for.

Couldn’t be more simple than that.

Some of y’all act like Brownback’s Kansas Experiment never happened. It’s not like you can just cut taxes and magic occurs.

I’m not saying LA should make itself less welcoming to businesses looking to potentially move, I just don’t think tax cuts are a magic panacea for all economic ills.

It would also be nice to see LA focus on creating industries instead of just prostituting itself hoping someone will deem it worthy to move their business into town to save a percentage point or two in taxes. Everyone here likes to shite on California due to the companies that are leaving, but no one ever mentions the massive number of companies that start and grow quickly there every single year. They don’t give a damn about who leaves because they have another hundred growing exponentally.

All I’m saying is it isn’t as simple as if you have a D or R next to your name. It’s a lot more complicated than that and people have to quit seeing everything through a strictly political lense. It isn’t healthy or helpful.

It’s definitely a tough row to hoe; it’s been in a downward spiral for too long to have one term magically reverse course.

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I disagree

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Ok.

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You’d be an idiot not to use TOPS if it was your best option

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Sometimes the true test of someone’s character and ideology is a choice for a perfectly legal activity between what’s gratifying, expedient and what’s right and preserves your principles.

It may be legal to do that but I just can’t defend it on a moral and philosophical basis knowing the goal of the program.

If you take TOPS and then immediately leave the state, that’s ripping off taxpayers.

If you disagree that’s fine. Just means we have different thresholds of what’s acceptable to both of us.

TOPS has nothing to do with the economy and job market in Louisiana and vice versa

yes -like Jindal?